Community DAO

●Draft

Status: Draft
Version: 0.1.0
Last Updated: 2026-05-16
Owner: Governance Nucleus

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Purpose

The Community DAO supports open ecosystem participation.

Scope

It covers public proposals, feedback, voting, governance participation, and community-driven improvement.

Responsibilities

• Surface public proposals.
• Participate in governance decisions.
• Review product feedback.
• Support transparency and public accountability.
• Signal ecosystem preferences.
• Provide feedback on roadmap and products.
• Hold leadership and councils accountable.

Governance Design

The Community DAO may use mechanisms intended to reduce capture, such as eligibility rules, delegation, reputation, or quadratic voting. These mechanisms are design options until implemented and verified.

Decision Types

• Community signaling
• Product feedback
• Ecosystem preferences
• Public proposal support
• Non-critical parameter preferences
• Education and reputation-related governance

Risk Considerations

Community governance should address sybil behavior, voter apathy, bribery, rushed campaigns, misinformation, and unclear proposal scope.

Community voting alone may not be sufficient for treasury, smart contract, plugin, or other security-sensitive actions. Those decisions may require layered review.

Participation Flow

A community participant may raise a need or proposal. The Community DAO can deliberate, request evidence, signal preference, and, where formally authorized, decide within its scope. Treasury-sensitive, contract, security, plugin, and federation actions continue to require the additional authorities defined for those actions.

A complete participation record identifies eligibility, proposal scope, discussion period, decision method, conflicts, outcome, and any execution dependency. Capture controls may include transparent eligibility, delegation rules, review periods, conflict disclosure, and appeal paths. These mechanisms remain design options until formally adopted and verified.